re I obtained a sight of this Tyrant, and heard the Relation of his
Actions. He utterly destroy'd that Land, which the rest of the
_Spaniards_ took very unkindly at his Hands, who frequently playd the
Pirate, and rob'd on that shore, detesting it as a wicked thing,
because they had lost that place, where they use to be treated with as
great Hospitality and Freedom, as if they had been under their own
Roof: Nay they transported from this place, among them, to the Isles of
_Hispaniola_ and St. _John_ Two Millions of Men and upward, and made
the Coast a Desert.

It is most certainly true, that they never ship off a Vessel freighted
with _Indians_, but they pay a third part as Tribute to the Sea,
besides those who are slaughter'd, when found in their own Houses. Now
the Soarce and Original of all this is the ends they have propos'd to
themselves. For there is a necessity of taking with them a great
number of _Indians_, that they may gain a great sum of Mony by their
Sale, now the Ships are very slenderly furnished with Provisions and
Water in small Quantity, to satisfie few, left the Tyrants, who are
term'd Owners or Proprietors of Ships should be at too great expence in
Victualling their Vessels, nay they scarce carry Food enough with them
to maintain the _Spaniards_ that manage the Vessel, which is the reason
so many _Indians_ dye with Hunger and Thirst, and of necessity they
must be thrown over-board: Nay one of them told me this for a Truth,
that there being such a Multitude of Men thus destroy'd, a Ship may
sail from the Isle of _Lucaya_ to _Hispaniola_, which is a Voyage of
Twenty Leagues and upward, without Chart or Compass, by the sole
Direction or Observation of dead fluctuating Carkasses.

But afterward, when arriv'd, and driven up into the Isle whither they
are brought to be sold, there is no Person that is in some small
measure compassionate, but would be extreamly mov'd and discompos'd at
the sight; _viz._ to spie old Men and Women, together with Naked
Children half starv'd. Then they separate Parents from Children, Wives
from their Husbands, about Ten or Twenty in a Company, and cast lots
for them, that the Detestable Owners of the Ships may have their share;
who prepare Two or Three Ships, and equip them as a Fleet of Pirates,
going ashore ravaging and forcing Men out of their Houses, and then
robbing them: But when the lot of any one of them falls upon a parcel,
that hath an aged or diseased Man; the Ty